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Author: Stephen R. Acker, Research Director
Ohio’s Scaffold to the Stars
In yesterday’s post, we began to explore some strategies for solving the NGLC puzzle. NGLC tasked its grant recipients with a difficult, multi-part challenge: (1) Innovate (2) at scale (3) within an...
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Author: Stephen R. Acker, Research Director
Ohio’s Scaffold to the Stars
The NGLC puzzle: NGLC tasked its grant recipients with a difficult, multi-part challenge: (1) Innovate (2) at scale (3) within an organizational setting that (4) generates confirmatory evidence in (5) a short...
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Workshops and conferences are popular tactics for scaling a proven innovation that uses technology to improve outcomes for students so that it attains broader adoption. In a workshop, new adopters have hands-on opportunities to use the innovation, time with those already using the new...
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It’s all systems go, at last: Northern Arizona University, one of the ten institutions presently developing breakthrough degree programs with NGLC support, recently got the green light to start enrolling students in their Personalized Learning program. The Higher Learning Commission of the...
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As we find ourselves at the end of another academic year, posts on the NGLC blog have taken a reflective tone. Grantees reflected on their efforts to transform education, and NGLC staff and guest bloggers reflected on the impact of educational innovation…on teachers and teaching, on learning...
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By Pat Shea, Project Director, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education and Rhonda Epper, Assistant Provost, Colorado Community College System
When you think about what it takes to create openly licensed courseware, inter-institutional and international faculty collaboration might...
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By Patrick McAndrew, Professor of Open Education at The Open University
The collaborators on Bridge to Success, one of the “Building Blocks for College Completion” from NGLC’s first wave of funding, have recently wrapped up the project’s active phase with the traditional...
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By Russ Little Project Director, Student Success Plan, Sinclair Community College
Learning analytics, in which institutions use large data sets to improve learning outcomes, was in its earliest pioneering phase two years ago in spring 2011 when Sinclair Community College received Wave I NGLC...
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Last month, Kristen Vogt inaugurated a monthly series on the latest news and reports on next generation learning, contributing the view from the postsecondary sphere. Leading off her inaugural post were notes on the rapidly evolving new federal policies about financial aid funding eligibility for...
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By John Squires
This month, the number of students potentially ready for college in Tennessee got a significant boost as a version of Chattanooga State College’s “Do the Math” project, one of NGLC’s “Building Blocks for College Completion” grantees, expanded its...
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